Message Failed

INDIGENOUS: Our lands are here to welcomePARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: As long, as long ago we offer welcomePARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: An offering from within deep withinPARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: Who are your people?PARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: Our custom, begins like thisPARLIAMENTARIAN: We do no come in peaceINDIGENOUS: From the tops of the gum trees, tooPARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: Beneath the earth our motherPARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peaceINDIGENOUS: If you share with our traditionsPARLIAMENTARIAN: We do not come in peace We do not come in peace Die just be gone

Ruby Was Never Seen Again 25/9/03

Weep for this wounded desperate soul that never seems to heal, alone, vocalising to any passer by. Uncomfortable for some, they turn away, but that won’t stopher swaying, or mend her destructive pain

Pray for this tired old and embittered ladywho fought courageously against the colonisersclassified as ‘tribal’ whose love across theracial lines meant government sanctionedinterference: the Bullyman, welfare, localschool teacher – informant, would not relenttill Ruby was removed

Three long years of hiding from thetentacles of institutionalised racism, till a moments lapse and then she’s goneRuby’s gone, like she never existed, nor was ever loved. Rocking to and fro, she still dreams of little Ruby and of that fateful day and wonders

Women's Liberation

Talk to me about the feminist movement,the gubba middle classhetero sexual revolutionway back in the seventieswhen men wore tweed jackets withleather elbows, and the women, wellI don’t remember or maybe I just don’t careor can’t relate.Now what were those white women on about?What type of neurosis was fashionable back then?So maybe I was only a school kid; and kids, like women,have got on thing that joins that schemata,like we’re not worth listening to,and who wants to liberate women and childrenwhat will happen in an egalitarian societyif the women and the kids start becoming complacentin that they believe they should have rightsand economic independence,and what would these middle class kids and white women dowith liberation, with freedom, with choices of